A new arrival
On Saturday at about 11 a.m., with the help of a tugboat, the newly built Long Island Ferry pulled up to Eastern Shipbuilding Group’s shipyard in Port St. Joe from the Allanton Shipyard in Panama City. Completion of construction and outfitting of ESH Hull 228 is expected to take 14 months, and then will be delivered to Long Island. The ferry joins a 350-foot Hornbeck ship now under construction, with plans for an additional Hornbeck ship to arrive next month. Eastern is recruiting new employees and interested persons can apply online at www.easternshipbuilding.com/careers.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.